Windows – How to rip audio files again, when Windows Media Player displays failed rips as ‘Ripped to library’

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[ Source: ] If you have to use WMP [Windows Media Player], then just delete previous files from your library (highlight and press delete).

WMP deceitfully displays files as 'Ripped to the library', even if they failed to be ripped. I notice no 'Delete' button or option in WMP. Please see this screenshot:

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I found that the check boxes to the left of the track number (column #) in Windows Media Player (12 at least) controls what will be ripped and in fact controls whether the Rip CD button is greyed out or not. Ignore the Rip Status column that says "ripped in library".

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just tryied myself. basically I wanted to save my library from external HD created with XP, and import in MP12 on Win7. No way to import it! So I opened the library with text pad, and it shows up as text file. The I have created a dummy playlist with MP12 (I called it "test") and open it with note pad as well. So, it is done! You just have to copy your original playlist (in my case the one created with XP) into the new one created by MP12.

For me, I had to cheange the header and everything went fine:

With MP11 in XP my header was:

<?wpl version="1.0"?>
<smil>
    <head>
        <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Windows Media Player -- 11.0.5721.5268"/>

That I had to change into:

<smil>
    <head>
        <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Windows Media Player -- 12.0.7600.16385"/>

and copied the rest of the file location and titles.

Windows – How to configure Windows Media Player to manage the music library

Surprisingly, its about as easy to do in Windows Media Player as it is in iTunes. Here is a link to an article for vista, and while some of the menu options differ, the steps are all the same:

http://www.quepublishing.com/articles/article.aspx?p=688534&seqNum=4

In the instructions where it says "the arrow below the library tab", just click the "Organize" button. The rest follows pretty closely.

Here is a digest:

click "Organize", then "Options"
On the library tab be sure to check "Rename music files using rip music settings" and "Rearrange music in rip music folder, using rip music settings". These settings will allow windows media player to organize the music in the folder you select on the "Rip Music" tab, so make sure this is the parent folder of all your music.
Click "Apply" and "OK"
click "Organize", then click "Apply media information changes".

Your library will be updated and all songs that you had added to the library that we not located in your music folder (the one specified in the "Rip Music" tab) will be moved, renamed, etc.

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